a. rare–1. [f. L. terra earth + OCEANIC.] Of or belonging to both land and ocean: terr-oceanic basin, a basin or hollow consisting of a sea-basin with the surrounding land within its watershed.
1858. R. Mallet in Q. Rev., April (1909), 495. These bands very generally follow the lines of elevation which mark and divide the great oceanic or terr-oceanic basins (saucers) of the earth’s surface.
